This is exceptional. A 25% swing from Labour to Green in a ward where Labour only had 32% of the vote to begin with
Labour are losing 2/3 of their support in areas where there is a credible progressive/left challenger
If this is replicated in May, we will truly change political course as a country
This is the "progressive people have nowhere else to go but Labour" argument that really doesn't hold any more
There are other options and an increasing number of people are talking them
He has ‘acting head of geography’ vibes
And hopefully the Streisand effect will take hold and many more people will read it
Media commentators for decades: The Green Party only ever talk about the environment - they don’t care about other issues
Green Party: Let’s talk about those other issues
Media commentators: The Green Party have abandoned the environment!!!
…so tedious
Great video that gets underneath one of our main challenges
But let's also add the 800 libraries, 2000 public toilets, 900 football pitches, 800 play parks & 200 school playing fields that have been closed in recent decades
Thatcherism has killed our social spaces and it is time to reverse that
So your position is that he wasn't entirely honest about something embarrassing that happened when? 15 years ago? When he wasn't elected to anything?
I'm sure I could find something embarrassing you did 15+ years ago. Most of us could fill a book
OK, i think maybe you don't quite grasp what an opinion poll is.
Your rationale would mean you'd have to dismiss all opinion polls. Which is fine, but you can't just apply it to one
The reality is that opinion polls do give us a rough idea of voting intentions
Also “Let’s just be thankful” could be the motto of Labour supporters
No, let’s not. Let’s demand the change we need, otherwise it will never happen
Little steps???
It’s been 115 years…
This isn’t a little step, it’s a cul-de-sac
That's a normal sample for regular opinion polls
Labour are making changes that will mean the House of Lords will remain in place and remain unelected.
More crumbs from the table that we're supposed to be grateful for.
No thanks
This is so naive - does he think that private capital is free money?
What does he think it wants in return?
Labour have learned nothing from the PFI scam
His position is to assist the US in its attacks
There has already been mission creep in just the first few days
This is so dumb - if Trump succeeds in Iran he will invade Greenland, and probably Canada.
This headline from the Washington Post highlights something we could all figure out if we think for a moment
Structural harassment of groups of people is directly detrimental to their health
Being racist or transphobic or homophobic or antisemitic isn't 'free speech' - it's inflicting harm
It omits any policy implications, because as soon as you talk about the practical implementation of something like this, you see it for what it really is: narrow-minded intolerance dressed up as social cohesion
Social liberalism isn't about disruption, it's about recognising the world as it is
FFS
Has Bloomberg heard of climate change?
Are there maybe other lessons we need to heed, that are more important?
Yes to HS2 (low carbon transport), but no to aviation expansion. Why is this so difficult?
But, I suspect, the market will have the last word, and that most of those property values will evaporate via another crash, or simply be absorbed by the state in some way to pay for elderly care.
Either way, the magic trick will fail and we'll have to fund society the traditional way after all
And every gov't we'd had this century (Labour, Tory and LibDem) have happily obliged with policies that deliberately inflated house prices, and gave the boomer generation preferential access to that market
it was gone to make that generation feel richer and not panic about their future finances
Good article on the political dynamics of an ageing population, that rightly centres house prices as a core problem
But I wonder why we don't acknowledge the causal link between the 2: more older, homeowning voters have deliberately voted for high house prices
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Sure. I accept that, but it doesn’t change my point or the original discussion
I don't think anyone has ever said everyone over 70 is rolling in cash, but 1 in 5 UK pensioners is part of a millionaire household, so there is that.
That's mainly been drive by successive govt policies to drive up house prices and rents (700k pensioners are landlords)
I take it back slightly - it's about 30% of London council seats. But still very achievable...
At first I thought this looked far too high (and a potential hostage to fortune if the @greenparty.org.uk only gained, say, 400), but then I realised that it's only ~25% of Cllrs in London
If Greens win 25% of votes (which seems very achievable), and target well, this starts to look realistic
Done - best of luck. I hope you smash it - Labour have had it far too easy in Islington for far too long
In the UK each year about 1600 people are killed, and another 26000 seriously injured by motor vehicles, but sure, focus your resources on tracking down e-scooters (which are usually involved in collisions causing 6-10 deaths per year)
Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This needs to happen with quite a lot of historic policy that’s been sitting around, untouched for 10-20 years
I’d be very surprised if the Green Parties across the UK didn’t now have more members than Labour
